Every time I try to use a program from the terminal, I can't find it because it doesn't match the real name. For example, I type disks in terminal, but the real name is gnome-disks.
I tried to use:
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Since I installed Linux Mint 17 with XFCE I've been experiencing what I believe is a bug. Sometimes it will hang, at rabdom moments, regardless what I'm doing. The time between hangs can be hours and ...

Recently I installed Linux Mint 17 Qiana with Mate desktop, downloaded from the Linux Mint website. All works fine but I am not able to create new user in "Users and Groups" GUI tool.
Opened "Users ...

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I have dell E1505 with win xp. I decided to install Mint Linux 14 to learn more about linux os as part of my programming job. So donwloaded mint 14(cinnamon) and installed and works fine with ...

I have 2 primary partitions installed: 100MB system reserved (NTFS) and 230GB Windows (NTFS).
Can I make a linux /home partition so that different distros can point at it and use it's files? And will ...

I am using Linux Mint 17, with the Cinnamon desktop environment. I was hoping there was some way to format the Date and Time to display the Month (abbreviated) and the Day of the week (abbreviated) in ...

After doing an apt-get dist-upgrade, unicode characters including Chinese and Japanese cannot be displayed in Chrome's tab titles. They are correctly displayed elsewhere (e.g. page content, bookmarks, ...

Does anybody know how to download videos in Linux? I don't mean using programs, although if there are any I'd love to know about them. There is a you-tube downloader available in my package manager ...

I have two monitors connected to this system... one via displayport and one via DVI. When I go into the screen saver settings, I enabled Power Management and set standby, suspend, and off to 1 minute. ...

I own an Asus N551J laptop using Nvidia Optimus feature, running Linux Mint 17.1. BOINC can't recognise the GPU using Bumblebee driver even if I run it using optirun boinc. I installed bumblebee with ...

I’m having problems getting my dual monitor setup working in my Linux Mint 17.1 setup.
There is a display app under the system menu and when I run it, it says I have two monitors (it even knows the ...

I’m using a black MacBook from around 2008. The Mac OS X installed on the system no longer starts; I get a grey screen without being able to get to the actual desktop.
I was able to create a live USB ...

I'm using Linux Mint 15. I'm using the keyboard shortcut "Super_L" to open the Mint menu of the Mate desktop.
Now I want to use for example the shortcut "Super_L+1" to open a terminal window. I went ...

First off: if any of this is confusing or missing info PLEASE comment and I'll happily clarify and/or add more info.
I've got a brand new MSI laptop with Linux Mint (17.1) installed on it. It has an ...

I tried this instructions with touchegg: http://askubuntu.com/questions/92169/to ... -workspace
My goal is to be able to change between workspaces with touchpad gestures(My sugested gesture for this ...

I'm a Linux newbie and any help and links are appreciated.
My problem is that I cannot find any stable way to install proprietary nVidia drivers on my system (Linux Mint 15). Is there some tutorial ...

So I have been using linux mint for a while now. A few months ago my Gnome shell crashed and I was unable to use the full 3d features and loaded into fallback mode only. From that day (around 2 months ...

I messed up with some .h files some days ago and since then I have strange issues with my Linux Mint 17.
I cannot open my Trash, I get an error saying something like "sorry could not display all the ...

When I run Teamviewer on Windows, when I press Alt+Tab, TeamViewer catches it and sends it to the remote OS, which then switches its windows.
But when I'm running Teamviewer on Linux Mint (Mate) and ...

I found an interesting font on GitHub. And it even had an instullation guide.
So I use fc-cache -fv and it displays processing on directory with my files:
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/home/my_profile_name/.fonts: caching, ...

Decided to give Linux Mint a try (Ubuntu's interface annoys me), so I installed it with the intention of dual booting with Windows 7. Installation went fine, but now I can only boot into Linux Mint. ...